Ṭarpᵉlay — H2967

Definition

masculine patronymic noun

a Tarpelite (collectively) or inhabitants of Tarpel, a place in Assyria

1. Tarpelites = "they of the fallen (or wondrous) mountain"
2. the group of Assyrian colonists who were planted in the cities of Samaria after the captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel; identity uncertain

Usually translated as

Tarpelites. y

Origin

(Aramaic) from a name of foreign derivation

Occurrences

Ṭarpᵉlay occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezra (1)

• Ezra 4:9 — Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites (טַרְפְּלָיֵ֣א), the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,